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Books on: themes in american literature

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The Poet and the Gilded Age: Social Themes in Late 19th Century American Verse

Book by Robert H. Walker; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963

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American Poetry--19th Century--History And Criticism, Poetry, Social Problems In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Flory, Economic Criticism in American Fiction, 1792-1900 Phila...Political Writing, 1865-1900," American Literature, XV January 1944 , 381-410...Muckraking in the Gilded Age," American Literature, XIII May 1941...
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American Literature & the Culture Wars

Book by Gregory S. Jay; Cornell University Press, 1997

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American Literature--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, American Literature--Study And Teaching--United States, Canon (Literature), Culture Conflict--United States, Literature And Society--United States, Multiculturalism--United States, Pluralism (Social Sciences)--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...development of a postmodern literature, insofar as they contradict...argue that, among "Americans" writing in English...contemporary African American, Asian American...authors. The classic themes of American literature...discriminatory, since themes are by definition repeated...simplicity of these themes serves as a mask for...not conform to the theme or that lose their...
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As Others Read Us: International Perspectives on American Literature

Book by Huck Gutman; University of Massachusetts Press, 1991

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American Literature--Appreciation--Foreign Countries, American Literature--History And Criticism, Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

can phenomena as the American dream, the myth of America...valuable books, one on classic American writers 1976 , the other on contemporary...in which she outlined the main themes in American literature, helping Polish readers to understand...
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Cultural Diversity in Latin American Literature

Book by David William Foster; University of New Mexico Press, 1994

Subjects:

Argentine Drama--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Children's Literature, Latin American--History And Criticism, Feminism And Literature--Latin America, Gays' Writings, Latin American--History And Criticism, Latin American Literature--History And Criticism, Literature And Society--Latin America, Marginality, Social--Latin America

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...CHAPTER I. SPANISH AMERICAN AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE...Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Literature . Austin: University...Handbook of Latin American Literature . 2d ed. New York...ed. Latin American Literature in the 20th Century...Luso-Brazilian Literatures: A Socio-Critical...
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Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies

Book by Joseph Csicsila; University of Alabama Press, 2004

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American Literature--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Anthologies--Editing, Criticism--United States, Literature Publishing--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

or exhibited certain themes (American exceptionalism, patriotism, and individualism...the late i96os, commentators have focused on themes of protest and dissent in American literature. More recently, issues of race, class, and...

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Journal Articles on: themes in american literature

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The Lonesome Boy Theme as Emblem for Arna Bontemps's Children's Literature

Journal article by Joseph A. Alvarez; African American Review, Vol. 32, 1998

Subjects:

African American children--Literature, Bontemps, Arna--Practice, Children's literature--Social aspects, Lonesome Boy (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Bontempss childrens literature. by Joseph A...his use of the theme suggests a reason...for young African Americans. It can also explain...of anger in many American cities, including...Bontemps repeated this theme when he answered...variation on these themes of his motivation...Narrative: An American Genre," printed...very few African Americans educated in the...
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Nationalist Themes in the Preaching of Jupiter Hammon

Journal article by Phillip M. Richards; Early American Literature, Vol. 25, 1990

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American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism . Chicago...Bernard W. African-American Writers. American Literature, 1764...Bercovitch, Sacvan. The American Jeremiad . Madison...Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought...
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Four Decades of Literature on Native Canadian Child Welfare: Changing Themes

Journal article by Joyce Timpson; Child Welfare, Vol. 74, 1995

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Canada, Child welfare, Literature, Native Americans, Social services

Collections: Education, Psychology, Literature, Entire Library

...children were high. Predominating Themes and Gaps in the Literature Four distinct themes emerge in the literature: early...of jurisdiction is a common theme in the historical and contemporary Canadian literature Hepworth 1980; Hudson McKenzie...
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Hija De Las Americas: Latin American Themes in A Daughter's Geography and Liliane

Journal article by Elizabeth Espadas; MACLAS Latin American Essays, 2001

Subjects:

Latin America--Social aspects, Latin American literature, Shange, Notozake--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Las Americas: Latin American Themes in A Daughters Geography...and (e) the arts and literature. In the second work...the two most prominent themes: those of language...dangerous" (26). The theme of linguistic issues...repeats prior material and themes like a refrain: the...
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Noble Canadians, Ugly Americans: Anti-Americanism and the Canadian Ideal in British Readings of Canadian Literature

Journal article by Cynthia Sugars; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29, 1999

Subjects:

Canadian foreign relations, Canadian literature, Literary themes, United States foreign relations, United States--Public opinion

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Noble Canadians, Ugly Americans: Anti-Americanism...Readings of Canadian Literature. by Cynthia Sugars...clear opposition to an American empire that is offered...readings of Canadian literature tend to celebrate...identificatory ambivalence with American individualist certainty: "Americans have a metanarrative...1991, 111). While American nationalism is seen...

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Magazine Articles on: themes in american literature

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Lisa Majaj Speaks on Palestinian-american Literature

Magazine article by Randa Kayyali; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XVII, June 30, 1998

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Arab Americans, Literature, Majaj, Lisa, Poetry, Washington, DC

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Arab-American literature. She presented...general philosophical themes and thought of...history of Arab literature. Following Gibran...when many Arab-Americans were denying their...create an Arab-American literary space...be more Arab-American panels at conferences...and Palestinian-Americans. And so the cycle...
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Is Violence the Theme Guiding U.S. Literature?

Magazine article by Mallie Z. Dibacco; Insight on the News, Vol. 14, April 27, 1998

Subjects:

Violence in literature--Social aspects, Violence--Social aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Is violence the theme guiding U.S. literature by Mallie Z. DiBacco...works of our classic American authors -- even those...many 20th-century American writers. The works...playful dialogue. "The themes of violence, black...issue of violence in our American "classic" literature...
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A "new American" Literature

Magazine article by Jennifer Kocis; Multicultural Education, Vol. 9, Summer 2002

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Curricula, Literature, Multiculturalism & pluralism, Race relations, Secondary school students

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...teaching ofAmerican Literature in anything other than...characteristic of most current American Literature curriculum models...exemplify, Donderos American Literature course...literature of Native Americans and moves along a timeline...the time, and how themes carry across various...
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Celebrate African-american Art, Music, and Literature

Magazine article by Linda C. Joseph; Internet@Schools, Vol. 6, January 1999

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Art, Black culture, Black history, Black literature, Curricula, Musicology

Collections: Education, History, Literature, Entire Library

...Celebrate African-american Art, Music, and Literature by Linda C. Joseph...heritage of African Americans through art, music...to an African-American art exhibit? Let...long cultural theme. ART A Journey...20th-century American Art, studied at...Life," universal themes are portrayed that...Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation...
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Subversive Women, Then and Now: Cavendish, Treadwell and Henley Sound Surprisingly Similar Themes

Magazine article by Susan Jonas; American Theatre, Vol. 24, November 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Broadway's Bravest Woman: Selected Writings of Sophie Treadwell (Book)--Book reviews, Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance (Book)--Book reviews, Understanding Beth Henley (Book)--Book reviews

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...Prospect Theater Company or National Asian American Theatre Company that seek to reinvigorate the American canon with unusual revivals. The anthologys...called "Understanding Contemporary American Literature," and it is marred by jargon and leaden...

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Newspaper Articles on: themes in american literature

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Universal Themes Occupy American Rock Chiefs

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 8, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Universal Themes Occupy American Rock Chiefs. The Czars...Grant, singer with American country rock chiefs...steeped in the universal themes of love, loss and regret...that being able to read literature in the language it was...
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Theme for the Day

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 11, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Theme for the Day. The foundation...Professor of English literature Marilyn Butler, 63; American singer Sheryl Crow...Michael Jackson, 42; American film actor Burt Reynolds...Fax: 0121 625 1105 THEME FOR THE DAY Richard Guy...
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Book Festival Theme Takes a Trip Back in Time with Its Authors of History

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 11, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Book Festival Theme Takes a Trip Back in Time with Its Authors of History. HISTORY is one of the themes running through this years book festival...the West. Buck (1892-1973) was an American writer who spent much of the early part...novel, she also won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Once a household name, a 21st Century...
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Has America Produced the Novel of the Century? Jonathan Franzen's Feted New Book, out Here This Month, Explores the Theme That Freedom Is Our Ruin. So Is It All It's Cracked Up to Be?

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 7, 2010

Subjects:

Books, Franzen, Jonathan

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Month, Explores the Theme That Freedom Is Our Ruin...Broughton THE next great American novel has arrived, 562...it a "masterpiece of American fiction". Time magazine...won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The book seems to send...free." This is the key theme of the book, and the...
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Theme for the Day

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 3, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Theme for the Day. Im writing...in every branch of literature, etc to those young...Gavin Hastings, 38; American ice-hockey player...1979: Death of American hotel magnate Conrad...Fax: 0121 625 1105 THEME FOR THE DAY Richard...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: themes in american literature

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Spanish American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...universal currents of literature. There were the...Twentieth-Century Literature The state of Spanish American letters from the...mythological and social themes in works such as...characterized many Spanish American novels of the 1960s...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

ENGLISH LITERATURE literature written in...elsewhere, see American literature...new genres, themes, and ideas...wrote on Irish themes mythical in...century English literature were not English...was born an American, and Conrad...
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Children's Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in Contemporary Childrens Literature (1981) and World Within...Robert, ed., Reflections on Literature for Children (1984); C...Make-Believe: Tracing the Literature of Imagination for Children...Entrepeneurs, and the Shaping of American Childrens Literature (2008...
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Greek Literature, Modern

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

GREEK LITERATURE, MODERN literature written in Greek in...The Rebirth of Greek Literature Under Turkish rule...expressed indigenous themes in the vernacular...surrealism or British-American experiments in narrative...
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Icelandic Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

ICELANDIC LITERATURE the literature of Iceland. For the...classical and ecclesiastical themes and showing French influence...religious and spiritual themes in his short stories...establishment of British and American bases in Iceland during...

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